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Flyover country and flyover states are American phrases describing the parts of the contiguous United States between the East and the West Coasts. The origins of the phrases and the attitudes of their supposed users are a source of debate in American culture; the terms are often regarded as pejoratives , but are sometimes "reclaimed" and used ...
The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an American neo-Confederate [1] nonprofit organization historical hereditary association for male descendants of Confederate Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines [2] that commemorates these ancestors, funds and dedicates monuments to them, and promotes the Lost Cause ideology.
Flyover rights, the right to fly over a foreign country without landing; Aerial survey; Flyover country, a derisive term for the central areas of the United States; Flyovers (play), a play by Jeffrey Sweet "Flyover", a song by Asian Dub Foundation from Tank; FlyOver (ride), a set of flying theater attractions by Viad Corporation
An overpass, called an overbridge or flyover (for a road only) in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries, is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that is over another road or railway.
A flyover occurs at the beginning of the Men's Final of the US Open Tennis Championships. This is usually performed by the Blue Angels , the official U.S. Navy aerobatics demonstration squadron. A flyby takes places prior to the start of the Indianapolis 500 mile race, the largest single-day sporting event in the world.
Permanent memorial sculptures depicting the missing man aerial formation exist at Randolph Air Force Base (Missing Man Monument, 1977, Mark Pritchett) in San Antonio, Texas, [11] [12] Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (Missing Man Memorial, 1995) in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Valor Park (Missing Man Formation, 2000) near the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.
An example of the potential complexity of grade separation, seen in the Jane Byrne Interchange in Chicago Seven various overpasses for grade separation in Spain near Barcelona Rail-rail grade separation in Xiaoshan, China The concept of grade separation includes all transport modes, such as a simple pedestrian bridge over rail tracks.
The title references the term flyover states, often associated with the Southern and Midwestern United States. The singer tells the story of two men on a first class flight "from New York to Los Angeles", discussing who would want to live in the land they are seeing down below and saying that the land is "in the middle of nowhere." The singer ...